People who have real jobs in really heterogeneous environments who have to keep things like real manufacturing firms with real end users in real production doing real things like real shop floor data collection.
VPC running on Mac G4s -- because I *have* to, else I have to purchase PCs my company doesn't need. Lessee, a coupla hundred for emulation software, or at least a thou for a workstation when I can't afford the desktop real estate...
"Hold me Bob!" "I would if I could man!" -Larry and Bob in VeggieTales
Parents -- buy these videos for your kids. They are wonderful, and I'm a pretty poor excuse for a Christian. (Thus the posting handle...)
Sing with me now!
"Veggie ta-a-ales, veggie ta-a-ales, veggie ta-a-alies, veggie tales. Broccoli, celery, gotta be... Veggie tales. There's never ever ever been a show like Veggie Tales."
Although my company does need to be Y2K complacent, um...compliant, and although we do have equipment and systems that are date sensitive (the worst thing that can happen is that we don't invoice our customers...oh the horror), we still get some really dumb questions.
Like the customer who wants to know how we'll communicate with them in the event of an interruption in phone and other communications services. Although that's a serious issue, we're a printing company!! We're hardly responsible for the phone lines.
Although I won't do this because I'd get in trouble and we'd lose a customer, I'm tempted to tell this particular customer that one of our guys happens to own horses. If communication systems go out, he's volunteered to ride to their offices and pickup and deliver jobs.
Reminds me of my short stint in radio. Our transmitter went down once. Got a bunch of calls from "listeners" who wanted to know why we didn't go on the air with an explanation.
You forgot all the reboots. Including the reboot when you installed the video driver and the reboot after you configured the video and the reboot after you installed the NIC driver and the reboot after you configured the bindings and the TCP/IP properties and the reboot after you sneezed on the keyboard and the reboot after the OS felt like it.
NT is easier to use like an automatic transmission is easier to use than a manual. Sure, you may not have to do as much, but you've got less control, less flexibility, and you're never REALLY sure what's going on in there...
That should be on the outside of the Back Office box.
I just set up an FTP site under NT. I read the help files, did exactly what they said, tried to implement a little of my own security, read the help files again, again did exactly what they said and...
...nada.
I still need to work on the site and I need to read more, but the bottom line was -- use the defaults, don't try to change anything, just do as we say and everything will work.
I have an FTP site set up now, but it's not the way I want it, it's the M$ way. And I don't know WHY! *sob* I thought I was doing everything right.
This one paragraph makes both my points. Settle down, it wasn't a personal attack, just an observation.
I love it when people use phrases like "settle down" in a forum such as this. You have no idea how I'm really reacting. You don't know my experience or who I really am. You can't see anger or sarcasm in the written word. I am niether angry nor am I really being that sarcastic.
Okay, my questions, again, are not rhetorical. Most of what I see on/. is from a crowd of people that are probably a good 15 years younger than I am. People with far less life experience. Believe me.
I read a variety of newsletters, articles and technical information on a daily basis. This review was reactionary and poorly written. Not to mention that it took a viewpoint that really was not a part of the original DOJ page. That's all. And I think the questions I ask are valid, not an "attack." And after all, critiques of critiques are what/. is all about.
You've made as many so-called "personal attacks" as I have. At least you said you *couldn't* care less instead of my pet peeve...
I have two children of my own, and I do not appreciate the government using my tax dollars to try and brainwash them. I am a much better teacher to my kids than they can ever be.
Uh...I said that.
Also, in the future, people might take you more seriously if you left the personal attacks out of your messages.
I was taken seriously enough to be moderated up to a 5. What personal attack? On the author? By suggesting he didn't have children? Did you really like that writing style? Do you really think the author of the review should be taken seriously because of it?
Re-read my post. I never said I was putting my children's well-being into the DOJ's hands. In fact, I said quite the opposite.
Re:Cannot publish your term paper?!?
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I publish my papers all the time, if people would refrained from publishing stuff for fear of plagiarism the scientific comunity as we know it would not exist!
Pssst! The DOJ site was designed for kindergartners. How many 6 year olds do you see in the "scientific community?"
My kid's bright, but he probably isn't stealing your papers -- just reading the abstracts.
Did anyone read the rest of the Internet Dos and Don'ts page? Did the "reviewer?"
That article abosolutely reams one lousy page and one lousy "Don't" on another page and then implies that it's okay to copy materials including term papers.
As a parent of two future "netizens" (god, how I hate that word), I saw the DOJ's page a little differently.
Oh yeah, it's as hokey as hell and my kids will probably never see it. But what about the warning not to talk to strangers on the internet? What about alerting an adult if you get a suspicious email? Those aren't good ideas? Does the "reviewer" have kids? Is the "reviewer" old enough to have kids?
There also happens to be information on how to surf, how to use the internet as a library and what kinds of cautionary procedures a child needs to know. Setting my children loose on the internet is like setting them loose on the streets with a bike. I can't and don't want certain things regulated -- like I wouldn't want it regulated that large trucks are not allowed on *any* street at *any* time. That would seriously impair deliveries and commerce -- not to mention my paycheck -- relies on such things as deliveries. Heck, I work across the highway from a GM plant that is my city's largest employer. So "yay big trucks!" But you can be damn sure I'm going to tell my children to be cautious where they ride their bikes -- watch out for big trucks or stay off of major streets until you're more certain.
Same with the 'net.
I'm not saying we need to regulate the hell out of privacy and computing and the net and all the things the under-25 crowd thinks will seriously impair their abilities to get ahead. But I am going to arm my kids with common sense and even, gasp, techo-ethics.
And all the DOJ is doing is being an advisor. MacGruff the internet crime dog or something. I don't know how useful that page really is, but I don't think it's *harmful.* Geeze. It's up to me as a parent to be there for my kids anyway.
And somehow, in the apparently childless (not to mention child-like) "reviewer's" mind, this ends up being a highly-charged political issue about privacy and your rights on-line.
The DOJ kids page goes on like some blithering 3rd grade teacher in Kansas
And this article goes on like some blithering 3rd grader. After about the 5th "boys and girls" I gave up. Is this a feeble attempt at making a point or your writing style? Keep me in the 0.56% who don't subscribe, thanks.
Lemme get this straight, though. It's okay to hack 'n crack, but not okay to invade privacy. Okay, you explain that to my four year old.
As for the rest of the so-called article, all I can say is: "Huh?"
Although I might agree that this post was a *bit* of a troll, I do wonder...SGI made noises about Cray as a separate unit, selling Cray or some such. Have those "noises" changed?
For once in my measley life I am not being sarcastic, I think its a question that bears asking. Here are some good things happening to a market that others (and, by the way SGI) have said was "dead." (Do not flame me for that, SGI states in their Q3 1999 report that "The Company believes that the decline in the UNIX workstation and vector supercomputer markets are long-term trends...")
But that was under Belluzzo. To quote "Hopper;" "Oh I see, under new management."
Things have been quiet at SGI since they changed CEOs, at least from an outsider's perspective. Maybe they'll get noisy again in a good way.
There's a joke here, let me work it out. Kid standing in front of fridge...
"Get off-line and get a snack! What, do you think I'm *made* of money?!"
Can I submit a paper magazine as a story?
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I have a snooty magazine of home decor for the tasteless and independently wealthy that features *wooden* monitors. You know, the case is wooden. They come in birch, cherry, oak. Matching keyboards (the keys weren't wood) and mice (just the part under your palm was wood.)
They were actually pretty slick.
And you know, if you have a big old house straight from the early 1900s, a computer sittin' around looks...well...dumb. 'Course, I'd rather have mine disguised as a mahogany Victorian highboy, but that's just me.
The coolest things happen in my neighborhood (walking distance from my house to One Brookings Drive over there...)
My dad died of Alzheimers -- or, I guess the symptoms thereof, since the disease itself doesn't really kill. (You know, when you stop eating 'cause you don't wanna...well...) I suppose something like this could help track the degrading of the "wiring" as it were for people with certain diseases -- they mention specifically schizophrenia, but I'm thinking of progressive diseases like Alzheimers. Maybe we could have "re-wired" dad! (Don't call me sick and morbid, humor is the best way to deal with it.)
I took the phrase, "I go down the stairs" because is borders on idiomatic. I then ran it through Babelfish "maually" -- English to German, German back to English (replacing "stiege" with "steps" because I knew it'd hold everything up) and then back through to French, then to English and so on until I had gone through all the languages available.
The end result: "I do to the stairs of a stage that I am."
Whoa. Deep, brother.
One of the more telling comments...
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...is from Mary Jo Foley of ZDNN Tech news.
"The slant is so weird," Foley said, citing a recent Slashdot-linked interview on the Microsoft Web site. "What they highlight from the interview is not what a journalist would highlight. They like to highlight things that make Microsoft look stupid."
Again -- "What they highlight...is not what a journalist would highlight." So? Is that supposed to detract from/.'s credibility somehow? Does Mary Jo Foley have some sort of omniscience that is granted to all journalism graduates that makes what she and others would "highlight" something I need to know, even something I need to live my technical life by? What about the things journalists wouldn't "highlight?" Are those issues that we don't need to worry our pretty little heads about?
She then goes on to say that she checks/. five times a day...heh. To see what she should have "highlighted" I guess.
I have bookmarked Salon, Upside, Andover, CNet, Ars Technia, Macintouch, Slashdot, TechWeb, and The Motley Fool, among others. And what isn't bookmarked is usually found as a link from one of these sites. All have different styles, different priorities and all -- including and especially the "traditional" news avenues -- highlight different issues. After I sift and filter, I think I come up with my business and technical best guess. But without the "non-traditional" avenues, I don't think I'd have the whole story. The inside, "hey, we're sittin' here working with this stuff" story.
And I'm not some kid surfing around for kicks in the basement of the university computer building. I'm an administrative type that recommends and makes hardware purchases -- things like multiple midrange servers, workstations of all flavors, manufacturing shop floor data collection software...but I digress. The point is, I take my technology news seriously because I buy stuff and management expects that stuff to work. I track the technology market from here, among other places.
...especially about the terminology we use. "Select" means click once with that doo-hickey that makes a pointer that moves across the screen. The old typewriter hard return is now "Enter." And if you want to just put your friend Bob's name in your list of names and addresses, you have to type it in something called a "field."
Sure, some of the comments from the uninitiated *are* funny. And frankly, I'm bookmarking the site for future comic relief. And I even have plans and the material for a similar site that is dedicated to my particular corner of the computing industry. But we sometimes just don't realize how foreign this little world of ours is.
I just got through attempting to train the 76 year old owner of my company on how to send and receive email, write letters in Word and print out what he writes. My eyes were opened. We use a language all our own. And as for my boss...he is one very frustrated man. A former fighter pilot, beaten by a little grey box that he thought was nothing more than a glorified electric typewriter. This man knows his own business -- like anyone in any specialized industry, he can speak a lingo that few others would recognize. Do you know what it means to "roll cylinders," "dry trap," "make-ready?" No? You'd sound silly to my boss.
So...the site was funny, yeah. But I look around carefully to make sure no one catches me laughing too hard.
Every time I read a story on this movie that I once had a desire to see, it was produced at a lower and lower cost. First it was produced for around $100,000, then $60,000, now it all got done for $30,000.
Frankly, that kind of inconsistency makes me stop reading. Which is it? What's the real story? That's the problem with the "information age." It's too difficult to sort through the hype to get to the real stuff. So people just tune it out.
Depends on the daycare. Depends on the parents. Yup, I'd rather be at home just 'cause my kids are cool to hang around with. And I'm making plans to work out of home as we speak. But the short answer is, yes, this daycare experience has been good.
My son can count to 30, identify numbers at random, he knew his colors literally years ago and he's not yet 4. And maybe someday he'll know the difference between "your" and "you're.";-)
Oh yeah, and he's an affectionate, creative little critter.
I'm as guilt ridden as the next. I also know I'm a good parent and I know what's good for my kids. I'm "consigned to flames of woe" for other reasons...
I guess we are starting to pay the bill for two income homes- Americans are so obsessed with consumerism to the point where they will sacrifice their most important link to the future-their children, for a few worthless trikets.
Yawn.
Yup. All of society's ills would be cured if the women-folk just stayed at home. None of those two-income families *have* to work.
Yup, it's just greed making us all bad parents. Why, I'm so greedy that I use my dual income to purchase an old car with over 100,000 miles on it and I'm thinking of eating a dinner at McDonalds in a couple of weeks when I save up.
Oh anyway, I heard that if a woman studies math, her uterus falls out. Better get back home and do some dishes and laundry, girls! You *think* you're well educated, technical and contributing to the family. But you're really just raising a bunch of shootists.
Slashdot Mirror
Who would want to?
People who have real jobs in really heterogeneous environments who have to keep things like real manufacturing firms with real end users in real production doing real things like real shop floor data collection.
VPC running on Mac G4s -- because I *have* to, else I have to purchase PCs my company doesn't need. Lessee, a coupla hundred for emulation software, or at least a thou for a workstation when I can't afford the desktop real estate...
OS is as OS does.
Really. C'mon. How much did they pay to change their name to what people already called them?
This shows up as part of Jimbo's sig...
"Hold me Bob!" "I would if I could man!" -Larry and Bob in VeggieTales
Parents -- buy these videos for your kids. They are wonderful, and I'm a pretty poor excuse for a Christian. (Thus the posting handle...)
Sing with me now!
"Veggie ta-a-ales, veggie ta-a-ales, veggie ta-a-alies, veggie tales.
Broccoli, celery, gotta be...
Veggie tales.
There's never ever ever been a show like Veggie Tales."
A good way to beat the Diz-nee system.
From Photoshop 4: The electric pussy cat that belches!
Tell me more! Tell me more!
Quark 3.32 at least, maybe also in 4.x -- the ray-gun toting, object-deleting alien guy.
Although my company does need to be Y2K complacent, um...compliant, and although we do have equipment and systems that are date sensitive (the worst thing that can happen is that we don't invoice our customers...oh the horror), we still get some really dumb questions.
Like the customer who wants to know how we'll communicate with them in the event of an interruption in phone and other communications services. Although that's a serious issue, we're a printing company!! We're hardly responsible for the phone lines.
Although I won't do this because I'd get in trouble and we'd lose a customer, I'm tempted to tell this particular customer that one of our guys happens to own horses. If communication systems go out, he's volunteered to ride to their offices and pickup and deliver jobs.
Reminds me of my short stint in radio. Our transmitter went down once. Got a bunch of calls from "listeners" who wanted to know why we didn't go on the air with an explanation.
Install NT.
Finish hardware setup, except for video.
Install SP3.
Install IE5.
Install Option Pack 4
Install video drivers.
Re-install Option Pack 4.
You forgot all the reboots. Including the reboot when you installed the video driver and the reboot after you configured the video and the reboot after you installed the NIC driver and the reboot after you configured the bindings and the TCP/IP properties and the reboot after you sneezed on the keyboard and the reboot after the OS felt like it.
NT is easier to use like an automatic transmission is easier to use than a manual.
Sure, you may not have to do as much, but you've
got less control, less flexibility, and you're never REALLY sure what's going on in there...
That should be on the outside of the Back Office box.
I just set up an FTP site under NT. I read the help files, did exactly what they said, tried to implement a little of my own security, read the help files again, again did exactly what they said and...
...nada.
I still need to work on the site and I need to read more, but the bottom line was -- use the defaults, don't try to change anything, just do as we say and everything will work.
I have an FTP site set up now, but it's not the way I want it, it's the M$ way. And I don't know WHY! *sob* I thought I was doing everything right.
This one paragraph makes both my points. Settle down, it wasn't a personal attack, just an observation.
/. is from a crowd of people that are probably a good 15 years younger than I am. People with far less life experience. Believe me.
/. is all about.
I love it when people use phrases like "settle down" in a forum such as this. You have no idea how I'm really reacting. You don't know my experience or who I really am. You can't see anger or sarcasm in the written word. I am niether angry nor am I really being that sarcastic.
Okay, my questions, again, are not rhetorical. Most of what I see on
I read a variety of newsletters, articles and technical information on a daily basis. This review was reactionary and poorly written. Not to mention that it took a viewpoint that really was not a part of the original DOJ page. That's all. And I think the questions I ask are valid, not an "attack." And after all, critiques of critiques are what
You've made as many so-called "personal attacks" as I have. At least you said you *couldn't* care less instead of my pet peeve...
I have two children of my own, and I do not appreciate the government using my tax dollars to try and brainwash them. I am a much better teacher to my kids than they can ever be.
Uh...I said that.
Also, in the future, people might take you more seriously if you left the personal attacks out of your messages.
I was taken seriously enough to be moderated up to a 5. What personal attack? On the author? By suggesting he didn't have children? Did you really like that writing style? Do you really think the author of the review should be taken seriously because of it?
The previous were not rhetorical.
Re-read my post. I never said I was putting my children's well-being into the DOJ's hands. In fact, I said quite the opposite.
I publish my papers all the time, if people would refrained from publishing stuff for fear of plagiarism the scientific comunity as we know it would not exist!
Pssst! The DOJ site was designed for kindergartners. How many 6 year olds do you see in the "scientific community?"
My kid's bright, but he probably isn't stealing your papers -- just reading the abstracts.
Did anyone read the rest of the Internet Dos and Don'ts page? Did the "reviewer?"
That article abosolutely reams one lousy page and one lousy "Don't" on another page and then implies that it's okay to copy materials including term papers.
As a parent of two future "netizens" (god, how I hate that word), I saw the DOJ's page a little differently.
Oh yeah, it's as hokey as hell and my kids will probably never see it. But what about the warning not to talk to strangers on the internet? What about alerting an adult if you get a suspicious email? Those aren't good ideas? Does the "reviewer" have kids? Is the "reviewer" old enough to have kids?
There also happens to be information on how to surf, how to use the internet as a library and what kinds of cautionary procedures a child needs to know. Setting my children loose on the internet is like setting them loose on the streets with a bike. I can't and don't want certain things regulated -- like I wouldn't want it regulated that large trucks are not allowed on *any* street at *any* time. That would seriously impair deliveries and commerce -- not to mention my paycheck -- relies on such things as deliveries. Heck, I work across the highway from a GM plant that is my city's largest employer. So "yay big trucks!" But you can be damn sure I'm going to tell my children to be cautious where they ride their bikes -- watch out for big trucks or stay off of major streets until you're more certain.
Same with the 'net.
I'm not saying we need to regulate the hell out of privacy and computing and the net and all the things the under-25 crowd thinks will seriously impair their abilities to get ahead. But I am going to arm my kids with common sense and even, gasp, techo-ethics.
And all the DOJ is doing is being an advisor. MacGruff the internet crime dog or something. I don't know how useful that page really is, but I don't think it's *harmful.* Geeze. It's up to me as a parent to be there for my kids anyway.
And somehow, in the apparently childless (not to mention child-like) "reviewer's" mind, this ends up being a highly-charged political issue about privacy and your rights on-line.
As in my previous post, all I can say is:
"Huh?"
The DOJ kids page goes on like some blithering 3rd grade teacher in Kansas
And this article goes on like some blithering 3rd grader. After about the 5th "boys and girls" I gave up. Is this a feeble attempt at making a point or your writing style? Keep me in the 0.56% who don't subscribe, thanks.
Lemme get this straight, though. It's okay to hack 'n crack, but not okay to invade privacy. Okay, you explain that to my four year old.
As for the rest of the so-called article, all I can say is: "Huh?"
Whatever.
Although I might agree that this post was a *bit* of a troll, I do wonder...SGI made noises about Cray as a separate unit, selling Cray or some such. Have those "noises" changed?
For once in my measley life I am not being sarcastic, I think its a question that bears asking. Here are some good things happening to a market that others (and, by the way SGI) have said was "dead." (Do not flame me for that, SGI states in their Q3 1999 report that "The Company believes that the decline in the UNIX workstation and vector supercomputer markets are
long-term trends...")
But that was under Belluzzo. To quote "Hopper;" "Oh I see, under new management."
Things have been quiet at SGI since they changed CEOs, at least from an outsider's perspective. Maybe they'll get noisy again in a good way.
...with the door *closed*!!
There's a joke here, let me work it out. Kid standing in front of fridge...
"Get off-line and get a snack! What, do you think I'm *made* of money?!"
I have a snooty magazine of home decor for the tasteless and independently wealthy that features *wooden* monitors. You know, the case is wooden. They come in birch, cherry, oak. Matching keyboards (the keys weren't wood) and mice (just the part under your palm was wood.)
They were actually pretty slick.
And you know, if you have a big old house straight from the early 1900s, a computer sittin' around looks...well...dumb. 'Course, I'd rather have mine disguised as a mahogany Victorian highboy, but that's just me.
SGI missed the boat by not issuing the chrome O2.
My mom had one of those 1950s chrome toasters. I got shocked every time I touched it.
Explains a lot.
The coolest things happen in my neighborhood (walking distance from my house to One Brookings Drive over there...)
My dad died of Alzheimers -- or, I guess the symptoms thereof, since the disease itself doesn't really kill. (You know, when you stop eating 'cause you don't wanna...well...) I suppose something like this could help track the degrading of the "wiring" as it were for people with certain diseases -- they mention specifically schizophrenia, but I'm thinking of progressive diseases like Alzheimers. Maybe we could have "re-wired" dad! (Don't call me sick and morbid, humor is the best way to deal with it.)
Go Wash-U.
...or Missouri, or Illinois, or...
Unfortunately, that's the line we all got with our state lotteries.
I've done this before, just for grins.
I took the phrase, "I go down the stairs" because is borders on idiomatic. I then ran it through Babelfish "maually" -- English to German, German back to English (replacing "stiege" with "steps" because I knew it'd hold everything up) and then back through to French, then to English and so on until I had gone through all the languages available.
The end result: "I do to the stairs of a stage that I am."
Whoa. Deep, brother.
...is from Mary Jo Foley of ZDNN Tech news.
/.'s credibility somehow? Does Mary Jo Foley have some sort of omniscience that is granted to all journalism graduates that makes what she and others would "highlight" something I need to know, even something I need to live my technical life by? What about the things journalists wouldn't "highlight?" Are those issues that we don't need to worry our pretty little heads about?
/. five times a day...heh. To see what she should have "highlighted" I guess.
/. "weird."
"The slant is so weird," Foley said, citing a recent Slashdot-linked interview on the Microsoft Web site. "What they highlight from the interview is not what a journalist would highlight. They like to highlight things that make Microsoft look stupid."
Again -- "What they highlight...is not what a journalist would highlight." So? Is that supposed to detract from
She then goes on to say that she checks
I have bookmarked Salon, Upside, Andover, CNet, Ars Technia, Macintouch, Slashdot, TechWeb, and The Motley Fool, among others. And what isn't bookmarked is usually found as a link from one of these sites. All have different styles, different priorities and all -- including and especially the "traditional" news avenues -- highlight different issues. After I sift and filter, I think I come up with my business and technical best guess. But without the "non-traditional" avenues, I don't think I'd have the whole story. The inside, "hey, we're sittin' here working with this stuff" story.
And I'm not some kid surfing around for kicks in the basement of the university computer building. I'm an administrative type that recommends and makes hardware purchases -- things like multiple midrange servers, workstations of all flavors, manufacturing shop floor data collection software...but I digress. The point is, I take my technology news seriously because I buy stuff and management expects that stuff to work. I track the technology market from here, among other places.
I guess that makes
...especially about the terminology we use. "Select" means click once with that doo-hickey that makes a pointer that moves across the screen. The old typewriter hard return is now "Enter." And if you want to just put your friend Bob's name in your list of names and addresses, you have to type it in something called a "field."
Sure, some of the comments from the uninitiated *are* funny. And frankly, I'm bookmarking the site for future comic relief. And I even have plans and the material for a similar site that is dedicated to my particular corner of the computing industry. But we sometimes just don't realize how foreign this little world of ours is.
I just got through attempting to train the 76 year old owner of my company on how to send and receive email, write letters in Word and print out what he writes. My eyes were opened. We use a language all our own. And as for my boss...he is one very frustrated man. A former fighter pilot, beaten by a little grey box that he thought was nothing more than a glorified electric typewriter. This man knows his own business -- like anyone in any specialized industry, he can speak a lingo that few others would recognize. Do you know what it means to "roll cylinders," "dry trap," "make-ready?" No? You'd sound silly to my boss.
So...the site was funny, yeah. But I look around carefully to make sure no one catches me laughing too hard.
...even on /.
Every time I read a story on this movie that I once had a desire to see, it was produced at a lower and lower cost. First it was produced for around $100,000, then $60,000, now it all got done for $30,000.
Frankly, that kind of inconsistency makes me stop reading. Which is it? What's the real story? That's the problem with the "information age." It's too difficult to sort through the hype to get to the real stuff. So people just tune it out.
My son can count to 30, identify numbers at random, he knew his colors literally years ago and he's not yet 4. And maybe someday he'll know the difference between "your" and "you're." ;-)
Oh yeah, and he's an affectionate, creative little critter.
I'm as guilt ridden as the next. I also know I'm a good parent and I know what's good for my kids. I'm "consigned to flames of woe" for other reasons...
Yawn.
Yup. All of society's ills would be cured if the women-folk just stayed at home. None of those two-income families *have* to work.
Yup, it's just greed making us all bad parents. Why, I'm so greedy that I use my dual income to purchase an old car with over 100,000 miles on it and I'm thinking of eating a dinner at McDonalds in a couple of weeks when I save up.
Oh anyway, I heard that if a woman studies math, her uterus falls out. Better get back home and do some dishes and laundry, girls! You *think* you're well educated, technical and contributing to the family. But you're really just raising a bunch of shootists.
Now *this* guy has a Y2K problem.